The Congdoan Hotel Halong Bay

We left Hanoi bound for a night on a junk boat in Halong Bay. We were a little dubious about what might great us at the harbor, especially given the title of the boat. It was a pleasant surprise to board a beautiful wooden ship, with individual, beautifully furnished cabins. <br><br>We were served lunch fairly quickly. Wow! The first of a number of courses was steamed prawns, moving onto crab and other wonderful seafood dishes. I think this is the ...

Up early to get our luxury private bus to Halong Bay - 3 hours. Then private boat to Catba island - what a wonderful trip - first class service on the boat, with a wonderful lunch served. We stopped to see some caves, but myself and Natalia stayed on board to be waited on and drank copious amounts of wine. So relaxed and fresh we arrived in Catba at our first class hotel.<br> <br>We had a group dinner then a few drinks on the seafront ...

I looked around from the floating village and could not believe I was really there. It is quiet and peaceful and out there in the Eastern Sea, nature trumps all. Tuyen and I unpacked the laptops. As I had predicted, most of them had completely dead batteries. On Thursday when the ceremony ended, the laptops were closed with many Activities open, and without being shutdown from the home screen. Hong, an eager 19 ...

... bay itself is stunning. Would really love the chance to go back out in better weather before I leave as was going to go on and do an extra day on this island that the hostel own but what with the weather not being ideal and Miriam and Nathan leaving the following day I decided I&#8217;d prefer to go back to the city to say bye to them and get started with the job search. A vast bay with countless limestone features jutting out of the sea. There are small uninhabited beaches everywhere ...

... tour company, but because the boats are the most beautiful and the prices are reasonable, and because you can come and see the OLPC global laptop project working in a remote location! Go to: www.indochina-junk.com <br> <br> You can see that I speak the truth, from my description of the day! <br> A small group including Mr. Dung and his precious 8 year old daughter, Thu, Tuyen, Vinh, Mr. Quan and Mr. Quang, both reporters for some local media, and my new ...

... that the island has a power cut, which has been caused by the typhoon and will not be on for the rest of the day. We had a cold shower then headed out to the town to meet up with people on our tour. There were not many places around to have a drink, it was very quiet not sure if its always like this or just because of the power being cut. We found a bar and chilled here until they got bored and kick us out early.<br><br>Last day on Ha Long bay we got up early to have breakfast ...

... This was Fung´s idea of fun................or something? So we got up....got a kayak and did one lap around a "Dragon Tail". No sorry Fung... it´s coffee time.<br><br>After a good breakfast we lifted up the anchor and went back to Cat Ba island. Dropped off the next extra day group, and picked up the others. We headed back to the harbor and got another great lunch before we took the bus back to Hanoi. Big restaurant in " Dragon Village" As we drove back to Hanoi, we passed an ...

... but it was interesting to see their set up: massive<br>complexes in, for the most part, rural areas. Outside the walled<br>compounds are food stalls for the workers, and immediately within the<br>gates are rows of motorcycles: the transportation of choice by<br>virtually all Vietnamese. <br><br><br><br><br>Upon arriving in<br>Ha Noi we meet up with Daniel and Lai again and book hotels and<br>trains for the trip up to Cambodia. Then we say our ...

... d un tour organise mais cela ne nous a pas empeche de profiter de paysages absolument magnifiques.<br>Il faut dire qu on a eu beaucoup de chance, il pleuvait lorsqu on est parti de Hanoi mais le temps s est leve au moment de partir pour la baie. Le bateau nous a ensuite depose sur le nord de l ile de Cat Ba et puis nous avons pris un bus local pour nous rendre a Cat Ba City, la seule ville de l ile se situant au sud de cette derniere. <br>On s'attendait a ...

Today was an exciting day as we head to the famous Halong Bay. We booked a 3 day tour of the islands on thhis really nice boat called The Amber Gold. It took about 3hrs to get to the bay from Hanoi by minibus. We were then ferried over to the main Junk on a small boat. The rooms on the boat were amazing. Hotel style rooms and the boat itself was really cool. We set out towards the caves on a 2hr journey. The scenery was spectacular. We arrived and there must ...